The Dairy Beef Index (DBI) is a breeding goal for Irish dairy and beef farmers to promote high quality beef cattle bred from the dairy herd that are more saleable as calves and profitable at slaughter yet, they have minimal consequences on the calving difficulty or gestation length of the dairy cow. (more…)
New beef Euro-Star evaluations have just been published by ICBF. This will see the Euro-Star indexes for all suckler cows, heifers, stock bull and AI bulls updated. (more…)
Herd-owners can authorise organisations through their online HerdPlus accounts by using the ‘Change Data Permissions Screen’ located under the ‘Admin’ heading. (more…)
The latest proofs (Eurostar and EBI figures) have now been updated and are available to view on every animal in your HerdPlus profiles. All AI bulls have also been updated. (more…)
The following is the schedule for the release of all 2019 genetic evaluations. The first of these will be going live on Monday 21st January. (more…)
The latest HerdPlus Dairy Cow Reports have been generated and are now available online. The HerdPlus team is currently commencing the process of posting over 8,000 reports to customers. (more…)
The first calves from the Spring 2018 Gene Ireland beef bulls are currently being born on farms. If you have any photos of Gene Ireland progeny that you would like to share with us, please email them to [email protected]. (more…)
A question that is often asked is ‘why are some of the newest bulls not on the ICBF active bull list?’. The reason for this is that some of these bulls do not meet the criteria to be included in the active bull list. The criteria is outlined below (more…)